Ruckus Wireless Named Best IPTV Distribution Solution At IPTV World Series Awards

IPTV WORLD FORUM, LONDON, England, March 7, 2007 – Ruckus Wireless today announced that its in-home wireless multimedia system, MediaFlex NG, has been named Best IPTV distribution/transport/delivery solution at the inaugural IPTV World Series Awards 2007. The awards were held at the IPTV World Forum in London last night.

The maturing IPTV market is a source of great innovation which is fuelling technologies that are revolutionising the way we consume television services. As broadband providers launch and build their video services, there will be a constant stream of new challenges, opportunities and solutions.

The IPTV World Series Awards 2007 are a showcase for the most important technologies and the finest talent in today’s IPTV industry. Judged by a selection of industry analysts and journalists, they recognise technical merit, direct customer benefits, proven impact through customer deployments and overall contribution to getting IPTV services to market.

Ruckus Wireless’ MediaFlex NG is the industry’s first and only carrier-class managed wireless services platform for the home that reliably distributes multimedia content over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi to every corner of the home. Deployed by more than 50 service providers worldwide, including Belgacom and Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, the MediaFlex NG is the only proven solution that provides whole-home broadcast quality coverage, as well as giving the provider extensive remote management capabilities.

“We are delighted to have our MediaFlex NG recognised as the best IPTV distribution solution,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “We’ve defied conventional belief by making Wi-Fi robust and reliable enough to deliver TV. Consumers don’t want the hassle and inconvenience of waiting for an engineer to re-wire their home – they want the location freedom to watch TV anywhere, and that’s what we?re giving them.”